Pipe-like ultramafic bodies, hosting Ni–Cu–PGE sulphide deposits, INTRODUCTION intrude the Main Gabbro and the roof metasediments of the Ivrea The Ivrea Zone, in NW Italy, is believed to represent an Zone, NW Italy. These bodies were emplaced at 287 ± 3 Ma exposed section of the lower continental crust (Mehnert, and represent the last mantle-derived melts associated with an 1975; Garuti et al.,...
